Do you think that abortion is ever justified? When is it? When isn't it? Are there exceptions?
2006-11-03 05:48:15 · 2 answers · asked by shellzy 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
The thing about the abortion debate is that the two sides are arguing entirely unrelated issues. Pro-life people say "abortion is bad". Pro-choice advocates say "The government not should be making personal decisions that like". It's not about abortion. It's about who gets to make the decisions.
Face it -- someone is going to choose. It's either going to be the individual, or it's going to be the majority (through enacted laws). If the majority gets to choose, then they are effectively imposing their belief system -- which is almost always religiously-based -- on everyone.
Right now, the conservatives happen to be in the majority, so many of them seem to have no objection to imposing their religious and moral views on others. But allowing the government to choose doesn't resolve the question. It just means that the decision on whether abortion is justified is being made by those in power, rather than those personally affected.
Do you really want to abdicate that much of your personal freedom and choice to a group of politicians? Do people really want to live in a country where state legislatures can decide who can be pregnant, and who cannot, and who must? Do people really have that much trust and faith in government that they think the legislature will always make the right choices? Because we'll be stuck with those decisions.
The concept of reproductive freedoms is not whether you agree with the individual choices being made. It's whether you think the government should have the right to take away and mandate those choices.
Why can't people understand that freedom of choice is not a minority value, even if the majority happens to disagree with the minority's choice?
2006-11-04 05:09:39 · answer #1 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right cuz right to privacy
2006-11-05 19:56:07 · answer #2 · answered by Vicki Von 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋